Electric Soft Parade have been heralded by much of the British music press as the best of a bunch of bands that currently make up what some call the nu-acoustic movement, which includes the whining of bands like Elbow, Starsailor and Coldplay.
But, thankfully, debut album "Holes in the Wall" puts a gun to the head of that theory and blows its brains out. Brighton boys Electric Soft Parade are much more than a bunch of losers sitting on stools, sipping cups of tea and producing moth-eaten music about how their girl just dumped them.
Brothers Tom and Alex White -- who share songwriting duties and are both credited with vocals, guitar, bass, drum machines, piano and synthesizers -- have put out an album that sounds a little like all the best classic-songwriting bands of the last 10 years getting together in the studio one afternoon, smoking a lot of spliffs, discovering that elusive little niche shared by eccentricity and genius, and settling in.
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